“I have not a clue of what you are talking about, but I presume you are enamored with high ‘progressive’ tax rates, and don’t like people who use legal means to minimize the amount of their money that they give to their government overlords.”
No.
Come on. We are curious...tell us what this is all about, why you have this particular Orwellian view about erasing the past of someone for whatever reason you decide.
My takeaway from that Forbes article is that the Government (State or Fed) is too big and making tax deals that they have no right to be making. And this is because they've designed a Tax Code that gives the Government Royals power as they can grant favors with various arcane tax breaks.
So Schilling apparently fleeced the Rhode Island tax overlords.
Boo-hoo.
The real crime is that we don't have a simple tax code without any tax breaks.